Southerly gales and heavy rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Rain not to bad yet :-k
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Suns out every so often here,but thats about to change,heap of rain coming up from the Canterbury bight ATM
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Heavy rain and severe gales in town, its as extreme as I've seen here, certainly since that Lyttelton day when the marina blew to bits.

And expected to intensify yet? Yikes Broken bits of trees everywhere, its like a giant mulcher is marching through town

Airport closed, roof damage, etc, this is full on
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Sounds bad razor :eek:

See Sugarloaf hit a max gust of 142km/h in the last hour
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Yip, pouring down now! Southerly gales with a real feel of 5deg and actual temp of 9.....
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Wind's just begun getting rackety again here after a comparative lull for a couple of hours.
Sounds much worse in Chch though - stay safe up there.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Richard wrote:Sounds bad razor :eek:

See Sugarloaf hit a max gust of 142km/h in the last hour
Top of the gondola got 163km/h this morning, thats horrendous!
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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CWUweather wrote:
Richard wrote:Sounds bad razor :eek:

See Sugarloaf hit a max gust of 142km/h in the last hour
Top of the gondola got 163km/h this morning, thats horrendous!
Yes I know the gondola guys, its a record for their station by some margin

The sattelite imagery of this system is amazing
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Looks to be one of events where the radar doesn't pick rainfall after Waipara,getting a steady here at the moment
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Now thats what I call a good rain band on the Metservice radar!
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Travelled between Akaroa harbour area and Chch late this morning - a few trees down, but no flooding as yet, despite the driving rain.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Hey folks things are getting rather grim in ChCh with flooding already beoming extensive on top of the still very blustery winds. The Avon is already close to breaching its banks at the gloucester st bridge in the CBD

If you are here take care and keep any travel tonight to that which is only essential. By morning its going to bring a deal of carnage I fear.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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High water at Lyttelton 20:08hrs.
Hoping for nothing serious;
thinking of those at sea in this.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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When I got home my Stevenson's Screen was upside down. Must of been a strong SW gust to do this this.
It is getting quite depleted now as, several times it has been knocked off it's post. :eek:
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Amazing how calm it has been in Wellington all day. I'm currently up the top of Mt Vic and looking to the south and the is all but no wind. Very light southerly. Yet a few km out to sea in Cook Strait, it is rough as guts with massive white caps. BIG swell on the south coast too. The Bluebridge Ferry "Santa Regina" was having a wild ride cutting across the swells to get into the harbour entrance. Looks like a visible wind line to the south, so don't think the gales are too far away.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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How much rain in west melton today do you know mate?
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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It seems to be a very blustery situation out there where there is damage in isolated pockets of the city/ north Canterbury, quite a few limbs down from weaker trees like willows etc.
The wind has been very strong so far today but as I say its not constant just in occasional waves/ bursts, the wind generally is sitting around 40-50kmh but sometimes gusting around 80kmh.
A lot of surface flooding around the city this afternoon, the brunt of this system comes overnight with heavier rain and possibly higher wind gusts which may see us beat the 2000 southerly wind storm 8-o
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Rain getting heavy again in Rangiora with red showing up on the radar in this area.
I don't think the wind will get any stronger as the peak was this morning and has now moved north.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Non event down this way, Patches of blue sky with moderate cool wind.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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In Akaroa atm, cutting up rough atm, waves breaking across the roads and three boats have broken there moorings. High tide at 730pm I think.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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29mm thus far today and 43mm for this system to date. Avon river had burst its bank on one side by Durham St when driving home from work. Next few hours will be interesting if we get torrential falls developing!
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:29mm thus far today and 43mm for this system to date. Avon river had burst its bank on one side by Durham St when driving home from work. Next few hours will be interesting if we get torrential falls developing!
Will get patchy now up until midnight, before more heavy set in rain after i think
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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This low seems to be feeding in rain from the off the seas off the Canterbury Bight.
Cold winds, warm seas, low pressure, seems to be a good ingredient for moisture to give another good rainfall total. 8)
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Only 16.8mm recorded so far today with all of the earlier showers missing here to the east or west. The winds eased slightly after the main rain arrived at about 1pm with fewer gusts over 50km/h. First time this year I've had to use the heat pump.
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Re: Southerly gales and rain, March 3rd to 6th

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Brief break now with light to moderate rain. You can see on the radar the next heavy band intensifying out to sea and heading slowly towards the city from the SE on the radar loop.
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